Question

I have a GridView control in an asp.net 3.5 webpage, the following code executes in the RowDataBound Event and it changes the background color and font color, once a value in the columns: RegWaitTime, and TotalWegTime is bigger than 30,

The value comes from two computated columns in sql server which returns the result from the substraction from other two columns, the problem here is that if the values are NULL in those column, I will get and error on the code that changes the color,, sorry my english , please let me know if you need me to clarify my requirement,

Thanks in advance

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
     {



        // Change Wait Time Cell Rows  CHECK THE LOGIC HERE

        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
         {
             // This line will get the reference to the underlying row
             DataRowView _row = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;
             if (_row != null)
             {
                 // get the field value which you want to compare and
                 // convert to the corresponding data type
                 // i assume the fieldName is of int type
                 int _field = Convert.ToInt32(_row.Row["RegWaitTime"]);
                 if (_field > 30)
                 {
                     e.Row.Cells[9].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
                     e.Row.Cells[9].Style.Add("color", "white");

                 }
                 else
                     e.Row.Cells[9].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
                     e.Row.Cells[9].Style.Add("color", "white");
             }

         }


        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            // This line will get the reference to the underlying row
            DataRowView _row2 = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;


            if (_row2 != null)
            {
                // get the field value which you want to compare and
                // convert to the corresponding data type
                // i assume the fieldName is of int type
                int _field = Convert.ToInt32(_row2.Row["TotalRegTime"]);
                if (_field > 30)
                {
                    e.Row.Cells[10].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
                    e.Row.Cells[10].Style.Add("color", "white");

                }
                else
                    e.Row.Cells[10].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
                    e.Row.Cells[10].Style.Add("color", "white");
            }
        }




     }

Answer 1

You need to change the conversion code to:

int field=0;

if(int.TryParse(_row.Row["RegWaitTime"],out field))
{
    if(field>30)
    {
    }
}

The reason you need this is that if _row.Row["RegWaitTime"] is NULL, the actual value you’ll get is DBNull.Value which will choke with Convert.ToInt32 throwing an InvalidCastException since object cannot be cast from DBNull to other types.

Another alternative would be:

 if (!DBNull.Value.Equals(_row.Row["RegWaitTime"]))
 {
    //then do the conversion as you are doing now. 
 }